PAGE & HIGH GEAR

Nantucket celebrates ten

Nantucket owner Teddy Swingos (left) and John Jordon; bartener

Redecorating is currently underway with new carpeting. lighting, and mirrors adding to the already warm and friendly

` ambience..

The Nantucket is located at 11624 Clifton Rd., Cleveland and is open daily from 1pm to 2:30

am.

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By Melinda McGeorge On Sunday March 16th, John Lehner and I went before the Tremont Area Civic Association (TACA) to discuss the GEAR Foundation's purchase of Bernard's Furniture Store for the new community center. We ended up subjecting ourselves to the most grueling test of our personal conviction that we have yet had to face.

being gay, openly or not, in this world. And an elected city official, McFadden himself, stood there and said "We don't want them. We have means to prevent them. We will take steps to pre-

bringing in, they shouted about Gacy.they snickered amongst themselves about our deviance," they quoted the Bible. they called us "perverted and mentally ill." It was horrible to stand there and maintained dig-vent them from coming here." walked away from the meetnity and composure through this onslaught, to have to stand there ing knowing I had been threaand defend our rights to our pri-tened, insulted, totally assaulted by these people and there was vacy, our personal choices, and our Constitutional right to own nothing I could do about it. I canproperty in any neighborhood. In not prosecute because the law all fairness there were only a few says they CAN discriminate who were really vocal, many sat against me, they CAN threaten and listened and some who came me, I do not have a right to freeto us afterward offering their dom yet. It adds all the more urgency to the fight we have undertaken here will not be intimidated. They cannot get away with this. We will not give

A group of community residents from the Tremont area gathered for what was supposedly a normal business meet, ing of the organization. It so hap-support, their parking facilities pened that we were the only item and their good wishes. on the agenda. The group was totally white, rather rowdy-. everything you would expect from a group which boasts the "drifters" and "hillbillies" who fire bomb each other's homes. Councilman Les McFadden was there (to keep the peace?) (or get votes?) and told the crowd to let us speak our piece. They sat quietly while we gave our standard raps about the Foundation, its purpose and services and our intentions for the building. But when it came time for questions and answers, they gave it to us with both barrels.

It was kind of pathetic really Even they realized, as they lis. tened to each other, that their arguments had no substance. they were simply "getting-off" on spouting insults at us They mouthed off about "our kind." the "whores and pimps" we'd be

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Mr. Novak, the gentleman who heads TACA (at whose invitation-in. we were there, mind you) misEvery neighborhood that ever lead us from the beginning. We had a gay population move into it had been assured that if we began by protesting--and ended simply explained the Foundation up with property values escalatthe fears of the community woulding. business thriving, and the be alleviated. He (seemed) was community visibly improving. delighted to have such a volitile Their interest will die down, their issue to bring life to his organizafears will be placated, our novelty tion. His last words to me were, will wear off. In the interim we will "I'm your worst enemy, now!" continue working to organize Oh, the morality of politicians! because that is the key to our Where is the concem for equalsurvival. ity, civil rights, simple courtesy? If they can trade in on the persecution of a minority God knows they will

And that's what killed me about all this. Here we are working day and night to build an organization to fight this kind of injustice and ignorance, to help each other throughout the stress of

If you have not yet become a member of the GEAR Foundation, 70.000 of you out there haven't, please do so today. We need your support, especially to hire those security guards we're going to need for awhile. And you need us, to stand up to these people for our rights to dignity. privacy and love.

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